By Rubin

10/26/2025

For fun --

Dad was a fan

09/08/2025

https://www.byrubin.com/portfolio #/la-collage/

free range street collage

03/27/2025

www.haikuphoto.com

hey pals, check out my (free) online self-guided workshop! and share with your photographically-inclined friends.

Join our self-guided workshop to explore haiku-inspired photography. Discover simplicity, rhythm, and form with 9 engaging exercises.

07/10/2024

New exploration -

In a Gen-AI world, it’s increasingly important to make some distinctions

06/26/2024

www.neomodern.com/rot

The True History of the Rule of Thirds -- i've been working on this for awhile and thought it would be useful for people teaching (or interested in) photography.

Jerry Uelsmann, “Self-Portrait as Robinson & Rejlander” (1964) — Growing up, I always wondered who these guys were, why Uelsmann would make such an odd self portrait and tribute. Turns out they were pioneers of pictorialism, in particular the combination of multiple images into a single fr...

05/13/2024

Hey photo geeks - went down a rabbit hole yesterday and found the long-missing source for Cartier-Bresson's quotation of Cardinal Retz concerning "the decisive moment." Nerd on!

We all know the quotation, but where did it come from?

04/22/2024

new episode:

WILLIAM LOFTUS > williamloftus.com Instagram Monthly Critique at Philosophical Photographers  

04/17/2024

I'm told it's National Haiku Day, if that is indeed a thing, and coincidentally an essay I wrote about haiku and photography is featured in the March Presence, "Britian's leading independent haiku journal"!

03/25/2024

If you missed my last haiku+photography presentation, you can catch it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-3T_YsN-s&t=2365s

photo: Erik Natzke

03/08/2024

just poking around the house i grew up in -- and then walking around the neighborhood with my sister. the images vivid because most things in and outside the house are similar looking between now and 50 years ago... the way the sun falls across the kitchen in the afternoon is something i'd seen a million times since I was small.